{"id":1237655,"date":"2021-12-13T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1237655"},"modified":"2021-12-13T17:10:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T17:10:26","slug":"thomas-muller-bayern-munich-rb-salzburg","status":"publish","type":"features","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/thomas-muller-bayern-munich-rb-salzburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Football’s worst winner? Why RB Salzburg really won’t want to lose to Thomas Muller’s Bayern Munich"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the latest addition to his collection of unnecessary post-match eviscerations last week, it might be time to ask some questions of Thomas M\u00fcller.<\/b><\/p>\n

In football, an invidious and tribal world, where the slightest remark can arouse a torrent of animosity from all angles, there really is a surprising degree of consensus. Some things are said, and said again, and then just accepted as un-interrogated truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

It happened with N\u2019Golo Kant\u00e9 a few years ago, when the cognoscenti first began to say that he was really good at doing the things nobody saw, and then everyone else said that he did. And so many other times, before and since, where a view is shared, and before long becomes embedded in the collective consciousness. Marcelo Bielsa is a genius, for instance. A director of football is a prerequisite to success. J\u00fcrgen Klopp is a really great guy. And Thomas M\u00fcller is one of the game\u2019s characters.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A post shared by Thomas Mu\u0308ller (@esmuellert)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n